Once again underwater photographs did well in many categories, showing how our images can compete and are accepted on a level footing with more typical wildlife images. The competition this year attracted over 32,000 entries and unsurprisingly the standard of the award winning photos is incredibly high across the board.

The award winning underwater photographs were:Felipe Barrio winner of The Underwater World Category

Awesome stuff. Congratulations Alex!
Looking at all of this it reconfirms what we all know, great photographs are about the eye of the photographer, composition, lighting etc, much more than the equipment.

Once again underwater photographs did well in many categories, showing how our images can compete and are accepted on a level footing with more typical wildlife images. The competition this year attracted over 32,000 entries and unsurprisingly the standard of the award winning photos is incredibly high across the board.

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And me, Alex Mustard, highly commended in Nature in Black and White Category

And here is a photo of the Awards Dinner in the main hall of the Natural History Museum:

Also there are pod-casts of interviews with some of the photographers (although this page causes issues on my computer). I am doing one again this year, tomorrow at 12:30 (I promise not to mention my new book!).